Summary

Footage Information

Sherman Grinberg
Paramount
PSN 4115
SR001249_01_01.mov
9/17/34
Nome, Alaska ravaged by fire
Title cards: "Fire destroys Nome!" / "Paramount News presents first pictures from Alaska showing famous 'Gold City' burning to the ground - a vivid portrayal of disaster by cameraman who risked life" / AERIAL VS smoke from fire on ground seen from airplane / gravel road with a few people, smoke and large flames seen behind / house being engulfed by fire / PAN right several buildings reduced to smoking rubble / men gathered to watch a small house burn / firemen shoot stream of water / shack burns / fire seen through fallen clapboard / men on gravel road / men with a bucket brigade / VS men on plank sidewalk, Eskimo / smoking rubble / man climbs stairs to small building with crude signs "North Pole bakery and restaurant / people gathered / women, baby, and dog / PAN right, destruction
United States
Alaska
Nome

Keywords

archival
newsreel
gold
disasters
destruction
fires
smoke
Inuits
Eskimos
gravel
street scenes
buildings
sidewalks
bucket brigades
signs
restaurants
bakeries
rubble
buckets
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